Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 19 shown for “Status cloth” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 06:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Buddha Shakyamuni as "Lord of the Munis"
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Status cloth
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Lineage Portrait of an Abbot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Status cloth
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Koto (箏)
Metalwork by Goto Teijo, 9th generation Goto master, Japan · early 17th century

Robe for a statue
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Hat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Nino Jesus
Unidentified · 18th century

Funerary mask
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Swaddling cloth
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Saint Bavo
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1460

Tapa cloth
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Standing figure
Tolita-Tumaco artist(s) · 500 BCE–300 CE

Swaddling cloth
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Swaddling cloth
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Swaddling cloth
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Floor cloth fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–60

Tapa cloth
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 251 matched · 24 examined · 17 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 273740 matched · 40 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 06:21 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.